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The processor pushes data though a pipeline of about 140 operations at a blistering rate of 400 megabytes per second.—IEEE Spectrum, 23 Nov. 2015 Trifecta has a minimal number of dependencies and clocks in at 3 megabytes of code, a fraction of the size of competing solutions.—IEEE Spectrum, 26 Dec. 2024 The only down side is the file size; fully uncompressed RAW files from this sensor run around 125 megabytes per image, though there are compressed options that will get them down to about 80 MP per image.—Boutayna Chokrane, WIRED, 3 Dec. 2024 Google added a faster and more energy efficient processor and upped the RAM to 16 megabytes.—Larry Magid, The Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2024 See All Example Sentences for megabyte
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from the fact that 1,048,576 (220) is the power of 2 closest to one million
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